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Poverty Rate by state

Percent. Every state colored on one scale across all years, joined to the map by FIPS code.

2024
20102024
Texas: 13.4%California: 11.8%Kentucky: 15.6%Georgia: 12.6%Wisconsin: 10.3%Oregon: 11.8%Missouri: 12.3%Virginia: 9.7%Tennessee: 13.5%Louisiana: 18.7%New York: 14.0%Idaho: 10.5%Florida: 12.0%Illinois: 11.6%Montana: 10.2%Minnesota: 9.3%Maryland: 9.1%Iowa: 11.3%District of Columbia: 17.3%Ohio: 12.7%Nebraska: 10.9%Washington: 9.9%South Dakota: 10.4%Oklahoma: 14.9%Wyoming: 10.1%West Virginia: 16.7%Indiana: 12.2%Massachusetts: 9.7%Nevada: 11.6%North Dakota: 11.1%Arkansas: 15.5%Mississippi: 17.8%Colorado: 9.6%North Carolina: 12.5%Utah: 8.3%Hawaii: 10.0%New Mexico: 16.4%Kansas: 10.9%Rhode Island: 12.2%Michigan: 13.4%Alaska: 10.2%Delaware: 9.6%Alabama: 15.2%South Carolina: 13.3%Maine: 10.6%New Jersey: 9.2%Pennsylvania: 11.6%New Hampshire: 7.2%Arizona: 11.7%Connecticut: 10.2%Vermont: 9.0%1312161310121210141914111212109911131110101510171210121116181013810161113101513111212
7.2%
24.2%

The color scale is fixed across all years, so a state changing shade as you move the slider is a real change in the value.

2024 · Highest: Louisiana 18.7% · Lowest: New Hampshire 7.2%

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 1-year · S1701_C03_001E · table · 2010 to 2024

Reading it. The official poverty measure, which uses national thresholds and does not adjust for state cost-of-living differences.

Comparing states is harder than it looks. A dollar buys more in some states than others, and survey estimates carry a margin of error. Read the map for the pattern, not for a precise ranking.